Pinboard: bookmarks for jannon tagged 'cold.war'

Martin Iddon | School of Music, University of Leeds

"In between my various academic lives I have also spent several years being complained at by disgruntled British Gas customers, opening accountants’ letters, and headhunting managers for Britain’s leading biscuit and cake companies. I continue to bore anyone who will listen regarding the precise distinctions that can be made between class 2 and decorative gas fires or why a Jaffa cake cannot accurately be described as a biscuit. Outside the worlds of music, gas appliances, envelopes, and confectionery, my interests lie predominantly in French philosophy, Italian coffee, and American zombie movies.’"

20th.century academics aesthetics america art brd cold.war composers darmstadt david.tudor delicious-export details german germany historians historiography history instruments leeds martin.iddon music musicians musicologist new.media new.music people politics pure.delight stockhausen work
april 2010 by jannon

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Burj Chalifa: So deutsch ist das höchste Haus der Welt - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Reise

apparently the saga of the palast der republik/stadtschloß can get more depressing: "Von 'Erichs Lampenladen' nach Dubai: In dem am Montag eingeweihten höchsten Gebäude der Welt, dem Burj Chalifa, wurde tonnenweise Stahl mit DDR-Vergangenheit verbaut. Denn die Stahlträger des Palastes der Republik in Berlin wurden nach dessen Abriss im Jahr 2006 eingeschmolzen und gelangten über Sachsen-Anhalt in die Türkei. Eine dort ansässige Stahlfirma brachte das recycelte Material schließlich zur Baustelle in Dubai. So entstand auch aus Teilen eines staatlichen Prunkbaus der Vergangenheit ein Prunkbau der Zukunft: das mit 828 Metern höchste Gebäude der Welt."

20.jahrhundert 20th.century architecture architektur berlin bubble.trouble building buildings burj.chalifa burj.dubai burj.khalifa capitalism cities cold.war components ddr delicious-export demolished depressing deutschland dubai dubai.is.crazy germany geschichte history lampen lampenladen oil palast.der.republik parts places politics pyramids socialism socialist spiegel stadtschloß symbolism technik uae united.arab.emirates wealth
january 2010 by jannon

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Whitey on the Moon - Lyrics

1969—40 years after the riots in watts, newark, detroit, baltimore, etc and 40 years after the moon landing: we're spending more on prison in california than on education, we're in a state of mass incarceration, and we don't have flying cars and vacations on the moon, either.

1969 20th.century capitalism capitalism.is.war.and.crisis class cold.war colonialism delicious-export future futurism gil.scott.heron history modernism music poetry politics priorities race racism resources science science.fiction scifi space space.race the.actual.past wealth
december 2009 by jannon

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k-punk: The Spy who never came in from the cold world (June 2009)

"And there are some of us, aren't there, who are ... nothing, who are so labile that we astound ourselves. We're the chameleons. I read a story once about a poet who bathed himself in cold fountains so that he could tell he actually existed from the pain of it. [...] People like that, they can't feel anything inside them: no pleasure or pain, no love or hate. They're ashamed and frightened that they can't feel, and their shame, this shame, [....] drives them to extravagance and colour. They have to feel that cold water. Without it, they're nothing. The world sees them as showmen, fantastists, liars, as sensualists perhaps, not for what they are: the living dead." / "Note the slide, in the quotation above, from first-person identification... to third-person disavowal... Smiley is no dysphoric by (un)natural inclination, but dysphoria is an occupational hazard to which he—so labile, so chameon-like, so at home in the zone where no-one warm and full can be at home—is far from immune."

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december 2009 by jannon

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The Fire Station « Article Magazine

"Sheffield’s former central fire station will soon be demolished to make way for redevelopment. This is a major part of the Sevenstone plan for the city centre, which will bring a greater number of shops into the empty spaces via a half billion pound mixture of Liverpool One outdoor style shopping complexes and more familiar American Mall style structures. The monetary and civic values of this project are highly debatable. As of now, however, only demolition of the fire station will take place, as the development has stalled indefinitely. Once the fire station has gone, Sheffield city centre will be left with a giant hole. . . . Under the fire station is a block designed solely for catastrophe. Constructed as the command centre in the case of nuclear war, this is a massive concrete, climate controlled war room from which the remains of the city could be overseen. . . . Regeneration follows a similar disaster narrative." (via danched; tho, most new ones here are also "malls w/o walls")

access architecture blank.canvas bunkers cold.war consumerism control delicious-export demolition economics england fantasy firestations fortifications malls meltdown new.urbanism pacification pacification.by.capuccino privatization recession regeneration security sevenstone sheffield streets threads uk urbanism
november 2009 by jannon

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